Montreal imam calls to 'destroy the accursed Jews' in viral video

Montreal police are investigating a three-year-old video that shows an imam at a local mosque calling on Allah to "destroy the accursed Jews" and to kill them "one by one."

The video, which went viral after being released Feb. 8 onto social media, appeared less than three weeks after six Muslim worshippers were gunned down in a Quebec City mosque and Jews across Canada rallied behind Muslims in a gesture of support and solidarity.

"We condemn these explicit calls for the death of Jews in the strongest possible terms," Rabbi Reuben Poupko, co-chair of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, told The Canadian Jewish News.